The Impact of Environmental Protection Regulations on Trade Liberalization: Evidence from the Environmental Provisions Under China’s Free Trade Agreements
- DOI
- 10.2991/ceed-18.2018.55How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Environmental Protection Regulations; Free Trade Agreement; Random Effect Model
- Abstract
Based on China’s 11 Free Trade Agreements signed with 19 trade partners, this paper discusses how the environmental protection provisions affect trade liberalization. Firstly, it makes use of Chinese merchandise trade data from 2008 to 2015 to analyze the features of trade between China and 19 trade agreement partners. Then it introduces the population, territory area, the distance between China and the trade partners, income difference, social labor productivity, the infrastructure indicators and the environmental protection regulations as independent variables, which builds the extended gravity model to explore the influence of environmental protection regulations. The results of the empirical analysis show that the greater the intensity of related environmental protection is, the larger promotion of trade liberalization will be. Trade agreement partner’s infrastructure construction has a positive impact; geographical distance has a negative impact. However, the impact of economic difference is not significant.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Wan Lu AU - Fu Yi-zhong AU - Liu Guan-chu PY - 2018/12 DA - 2018/12 TI - The Impact of Environmental Protection Regulations on Trade Liberalization: Evidence from the Environmental Provisions Under China’s Free Trade Agreements BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Education and Economic Development (CEED 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 266 EP - 270 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ceed-18.2018.55 DO - 10.2991/ceed-18.2018.55 ID - Lu2018/12 ER -